Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sverða heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 790.
Ek mun segja sverða heiti:
hjǫrr ok Hrotti, hǫguðr, Dragvandill,
gróa, Gramr, gellir, gjallr ok neðanskarðr,
sigðr ok Snyrtir, sómi, skjómi.
Ek mun segja heiti sverða: hjǫrr ok Hrotti, hǫguðr, Dragvandill, gróa, Gramr, gellir, gjallr ok neðanskarðr, sigðr ok Snyrtir, sómi, skjómi.
‘I shall say the names of swords: sword and Hrotti, useful one, Dragvandill, growing one, Gramr, yeller, clamouring one and end-notched one, sickle and Snyrtir, honour, glimmer. ’
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
Ec mvn segia sverþa heiti | hiorr ok hrotti hǫgvðr dragvandill groa gramr gellir giallr ok neþanskarþr | sigðr ok snyrtir somi skiomi .
(VEÞ)
Ek mun segja
sverða heiti:
hjǫrr Hrotti,
†haugudr†, Dragvandill,
gróa, Gramr, gellir,
gjallr ok neðanskarðr,
sigðr Snyrtir,
skjómi sómi, .
Ek mun segja
sverða heiti:
hjǫrr ok Hrotti,
†haugudr†, Dragvandill,
gróa, Gramr, ,
†giallrun† ok neðanskarðr,
sigðr ok Snyrtir,
sómi, skjómi.
Ek mun segja
sverða heiti:
hjǫrr ok Hrotti,
hǫguðr, Dragvandill,
gróa, Gramr, gillir,
gjallarr ok neðanskarðr,
sigðr ok Snyrtir,
sómi, skjómi.
Ek man sægia sverða hæiti hiø̨ʀ ok hrotti hø̨gvðr dragvandill sverða hæiti | gora, gramar gillir, giallaʀ ok næðanskarðr sigðr ok snyrtir sómi skiómi .
(VEÞ)
†[…]k† mun segja
sverða heiti:
hjǫrr ok Hrotti,
hǫgguðr, Dragvandill,
gróa, Gramr, gillir,
gjalarr ok neðanskarði,
sigðr ok Snyrtir,
†so[…] ok skíomí†, .
[...]k mun segia suerda heíti . hio᷎rr ok hrotte ho᷎ggudr dragvanndill . groa gramr giller Suerda heíti . | gíalarr ok nedan skarde . sigdr ok snýrtir so[...] ok skíomí .
(VEÞ)
Ek mun segja
sverða heiti:
hjǫrr ok Hrotti,
hǫguðr, Dragvandill,
gróa, Gramr, gellir,
gjallr ok neðanskarðr,
sigðr ok Snyrtir,
†somi ok skíomí†, .
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